This week, Cohere AI team shipped its first developer-facing coding model named ‘North Mini Code‘. ‘North Mini Code’ is open-weight and focused at software engineers. It is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 30B total parameters. Only 3B of those parameters activate per token.
The release is positioned around “sovereign” AI. The idea is simple: run capable models on your own terms. Small, efficient coding models let teams self-host without large GPU clusters. North Mini Code targets that gap directly.
North Mini Code is a 30B-A3B parameter model. The A3B stands for three billion active parameters per forward pass. Cohere optimized it for three jobs: code generation, agentic software engineering, and terminal tasks. The model is text-in, text-out. There is no image or video input.
The context window is 256K tokens. Maximum output length is 64K tokens. Cohere lists a minimum hardware bar of one H100 at FP8. Weights ship under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face. You can also reach it through the Cohere API, Model Vault, and OpenRouter.
FieldNorth-Mini-Code-1.0LicenseApache 2.0 Model size30B total; 3B activeContext length256K total; 64K max generationOptimized forCode generation, agentic software engineering, terminal tasksAvailabilityHugging Face, Cohere API, Cohere Model Vault, OpenRouterHardware (minimum)1× H100 @ FP8
